‘Self-sufficiency in chips manufacturing is critical for India’

It is in India’s critical national interest to become self-sufficient in manufacturing semiconductor chips, a top IBM executive told ET.

Semiconductors are at the heart of everything and are becoming an almost infrastructure-like necessity such as electricity, said Mukesh Khare, the vice president of hybrid cloud research at the Big Blue tech firm.

India should reduce its dependence on other countries since the Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted global supply chains, he added.